LOTTA WENGLÉN

artist/composer/producer

BIO

Lotta Wenglén was born in Malmoe in 1971 and started playing guitar and writing songs at an early age. She soon began making tape recordings with her older brother. When the two of them where introduced to a four channel analogue porta studio it was pure heaven.In her teens Lotta started her first band, but it wasn´t until the winter of 1995, when Lotta and two friends formed the band ”ba-ba-loo”, that the music started to find a form. The band had some local gigs in Malmoe but soon they got the danish recordcompany Mega Records to record their debut album ”Frosting- the american way” with help from producer Billy Cross (Bob Dylan´s former guitarist ). The album was released in 1998.

In 1999, Lotta and Uffe, the bassplayer from ba-ba-loo took in two new band members and changed their band name to ”bobby ray”. They recorded a demo and played at Popstad 2000 in Malmoe.

In the year 2000 Lotta went solo and recorded the album ”Golden Green” (DUNDRET STUDIO). It was released through Adrian Recordings in 2001. American songwriter Chip Taylor joined her in a duett on the album, ”The hard part´s to stay”. The song was also released as a single two months before the album came out.

Lotta started her own label in 2001, Margit Music (namned after her grandmother) and released the ep ”Scratch”, the single ”Ambassador of love” and the album ”Paintbrush” that same year. All recorded at MIN STUDIO (former Dundret Studio) in Malmoe.

During the years 2003 and 2004 she wrote, produced and recorded her third album in her small home studio in her house in Hököpinge Kyrkby. She namned it ”Ask Harry” and released it in Sweden through Margit Music in February 2005.

Lotta moved to Malmoe in 2005 and wrote new songs. She had no plan of making them into an album. Instead she recorded songs and released them the next day on myspace.When she found out that she had been granted financial support from Statens Kulturråd to produce an album she had a change of plan. She already had songs to fill an album so her fourth album ” In The Core” was released in September 2008.

Lotta started playing with Carolina Carlcom (Pujskins), Magnus Sveningsson (The Cardigans) and Måns Wieslander (Elevator Adam). They toured in Germany and new songs where written. The songs became Lottas fifth album ”Thanks for your generous donations!”Erika Rosén, Sofia Härdig and Katharina Nuttall joined her on the album along side the band. The album was recorded during a short period of time and followed a crazy production plan that Lotta had come up with. Alot of the humour and fun recordings made it through the mix. The album was relased in May 2011.

At this time Lotta was one out of five caracters in Jessica Nettelbladts movie "I am my own Dollt Parton" and these five women recorded (with Katharina Nuttall as engineer) an album under the name "Dollykollot". An album with both their own songs and Dolly songs.

In 2013 Lotta and her guitarist Måns Wieslander formed the duo Blind Lake and recorded an album named "On Earth". It was released in June 2015. During 2016 and 2017 they recorded new songs that will be released in a near future.

During 2017 Lotta joined the band Cecilia Nordlund och Fullmånen från Helvetet. That same year the band released an ep and toured with Pelle Ossler.

NEWS

Fullmånen från Helvetet

Lotta plays percussion in the band Fullmånen från Helvetet along side Cecilia Nordlund, Julia Giertz and Åsa Gjerstad. The band has recently recorded an album in Aerosol Grey Machine Studio in Vallarum with Christoffer Lundquist behind the mixing board. The album is undergoing mix and will be released later this year.